JPO, Associate Professional Officer (Forestry) FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization Junior Professional Officer (JPO) Chiffre Nr. 2025-1-11 1. General Information Job Title: JPO, Associate Professional Officer (Forestry) Agency: FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization Unit: Forestry Division (NFO). Country and Duty Station: Rome, Italy Duration of assignment: 2 years with possibility of extension for another year. The extension of appointment is subject to yearly review concerning priorities, availability of funds, and satisfactory performance. Please note that for participants of the FAO JPO-Programme at least three years of work experience are mandatory Relevant work experience can be counted. In order to assess the eligibility of the candidates, we review the relevant experience acquired after obtaining the first university degree (usually bachelor's degree). Qualified female applicants and qualified nationals of non-and under-represented member countries are encouraged to apply. Persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. The incumbent may be re-assigned to different activities and/or duty stations depending on the evolving needs of the Organization. 2. Organizational Setting The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. In 2024, FAO Members endorsed the "FAO Forestry Roadmap: From Vision to Action 2024–2031" to guide its work in 2024–2031. The Roadmap is designed to operationalize FAO's reinvigorated, fit-for-purpose business model in forestry to ensure an inclusive and agile organization that is transparent, open, innovative, responsible, effective and impactful – and that serves its Members in achieving the four betters. One of the three Forestry objectives of the Roadmap is to "Scale up science- and evidence-based innovation to increase the forest sector's contributions to global solutions and accelerate sustainable agrifood systems transformation'. One Priority Action under this Objective is to "Support countries to strengthen forestry education, training and capacity development on value-adding innovations and technologies, leaving no one behind, including through forest and farmer field schools." This Priority Action will be implemented, based on related work, in particular the results of the Global forest education project (GCP/GLO/044/GER) funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. The work will build on two key outputs of the project, a Call to Action on Forest Education launched at the International Conference on Forest Education (ICFE, June 2021) and the establishment of a Collaborative Partnership on Forests' Joint Initiative on Forest Education (CPF JI-FE), led by FAO and with ITTO, IUFRO and the Center for International Forestry Research-World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF) as main partners. The Initiative works to rejuvenate forest education globally through undertaking key actions related to education, training and knowledge sharing, including improving the use of traditional forest-related knowledge. Building on and complementing the global forest education project, in 2024 FAO will launch a multi-country project "Strengthening institutional capacities to train the next generation of forest and farm producers and practitioners, GCP /GLO/1243/GER J-18808-Ljbffr